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Returning to Hip-Hop Kings are Prose (Steady and Efeks) with the news of their recently released seven track E.P titled “Back in the Habit”. Prose were last featured on Hip-Hop Kings in 2010 with the video to their single “Life Times”, and the new “Back in the Habit” E.P is available for £3.00 from the official bandcamp link listed above. Prose have teamed up with Kashmere for the track “Verbal Attack” and Steady is responsible for the production and mixing of the E.P as well. You can view the artwork, track listing, and download link to Prose – Back in the Habit here.

As the Hip-Hop world is aware, it was announced the famous Fat Beats stores in New York and L.A would close their stores in 2010 to move online, and the Brown Bag AllStars have released a brand new video titled “406 (Fat Beats Tribute). Directed by Robert Adam Mayer and co-film and edits by Robert Levy of Civil Productions the video features each Brown Bag AllStar member giving their individual tribute to the landmark Hip-Hop store. Archived footage and pictures are used in the video, for the single which will be featured on the upcoming “Brown Label E.P” which will be dropping September 4th 2012. I can reveal the official artwork and track listing to the Brown Label E.P here, however you can also watch Brown Bag AllStars – 406 (Fat Beats Tribute) on the youtube player below.

It has now been announced that Dazzle will be releasing his forthcoming mixtape “Protostar” on 12th August 2012, and we have a short promotional video ahead of the release. Dazzle previously released his mixtape “Unity” which featured a number of UK MC’s, and Protostar is the second official mixtape which will be made available as a free download. I am also lucky neough to have the official artwork (front and back) and track listing which can be viewed above, so look out for features with DThrills, Terrorsum and the Intro track with Random Impulse. You can watch the Dazzle – Protostar Promo Video on the youtube player below.

Midlands-based rapper Sonnyjim has teamed up with June25thBeatz for a new six-track collaborative E.P titled “Snap Frost and Suede Season”. The project is available to stream, or download for £3.00 from the official bandcamp link listed above, and features two guest appearances from Kosyne and Smoke Darg, along with the popular single “Eatin’ Like a King” which was released earlier in 2012. You can view the artwork and download link for “Snap Frost and Suede Season” above, however you can watch the official video for “OneTwoThree” ft Smoke Darg on the youtube player below.

I was excited to share this as soon as I heard it, and of course anything produced by DJ Premier is usually gold. Making his debut on Hip-Hop Kings is Big Shug, who has teamed up with Fat Joe and MOP for his single “Hardbody”. Being credited as one of the founding members of Gangstarr Foundation didn’t do enough for Big Shug to take the limelight, but his upcoming album “I.M 4-eva” is his story wrapped into one album, which features newcomers Reks, Termanology and Slaine amongst others. Fans who buy the album will also have access to a 36-page book titled “The True Story of Gangstarr as Told by Big Shug” which will be available on 24th July 2012. In the meantime you can lisnen to Big Shug ft Fat Joe and MOP – Hardbody (prod DJ Premier) on the sound cloud player below.

Hip-Hop Kings fans will be aware that Elzhi is just about to start a worldtour which will include a UK date in London in August, and to get us even more excited, we have a new track from Elzhi titled “Blue Widow”. Furthermore, Elzhi has confirmed that “The Weather Report” will be the title of his new album (we are still awaiting release date confirmation) and track listing, however Hip-Hop Kings will be promoting all the campaign leading up to the release. You can download Elzhi – Blue Widow from the link listed above, and you can also watch the Elzhi Interview with Hip-Hop Kings below.

This is probably the last leaked track we’ll hear from Nas ahead of his forthcoming album “Life is Good”, titled “Bye Baby” which hit the Internet this evening. Produced by Salaam Remi (who also produced Made You Look) and Noah “40″ Shebib, Bye Baby is the fifth official leak from Life is Good. The pre-order link (including digital booklet) is available to pre-order by using the link listed above, however in the meantime you can listen to Nas – Bye Baby on the audio player below.

This is the SEVENTH official video to drop from Caxton Press called “Big Buck Star” from their album “Shame the Devil” which has been widely regarded as one of the best UK Hip-Hop album releases in recent years. Once again, Caxton Press has teamed up with Global Faction for the video who do nothing short of an excellent job on the visuals. You can read the official Hip-Hop Kings review of Caxton Press’ “Shame the Devil” on the link listed above, however you can watch Caxton Press – Big Buck Star on the youtube player below.

AOTP affiliate King Magnetic has now released his latest mixtape “Everything’s a Gamble Vol.3″, and I wanted to share one of the singles from the mixtape called “Beast 2″. King Magnetic has teamed up with Sean Price, Ruste Juxx and Saigon for the track whch already sounds like a classic without hitting the play button. Make sure you download Everything’s a Gamble Vol.3″ from the link listed above, however in the meantime you can listen to King Magnetic ft Sean Price, Ruste Juxx and Saigon – Beast 2 on the youtube player below.